EP2903941A1 - Procédés et systèmes de déstabilisation de la mousse dans des équipements en aval d'un pot de fusion à combustion immergée - Google Patents

Procédés et systèmes de déstabilisation de la mousse dans des équipements en aval d'un pot de fusion à combustion immergée

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EP2903941A1
EP2903941A1 EP13844052.4A EP13844052A EP2903941A1 EP 2903941 A1 EP2903941 A1 EP 2903941A1 EP 13844052 A EP13844052 A EP 13844052A EP 2903941 A1 EP2903941 A1 EP 2903941A1
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fuel
roof
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nozzles
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Mark William Charbonneau
Aaron Morgan Huber
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Johns Manville
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B5/00—Melting in furnaces; Furnaces so far as specially adapted for glass manufacture
    • C03B5/16—Special features of the melting process; Auxiliary means specially adapted for glass-melting furnaces
    • C03B5/20—Bridges, shoes, throats, or other devices for withholding dirt, foam, or batch
    • C03B5/202—Devices for blowing onto the melt surface, e.g. high momentum burners
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B1/00—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
    • B05B1/34—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to influence the nature of flow of the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. to produce swirl
    • B05B1/3405—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to influence the nature of flow of the liquid or other fluent material, e.g. to produce swirl to produce swirl
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B5/00—Melting in furnaces; Furnaces so far as specially adapted for glass manufacture
    • C03B5/16—Special features of the melting process; Auxiliary means specially adapted for glass-melting furnaces
    • C03B5/225—Refining
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B5/00—Melting in furnaces; Furnaces so far as specially adapted for glass manufacture
    • C03B5/16—Special features of the melting process; Auxiliary means specially adapted for glass-melting furnaces
    • C03B5/235—Heating the glass
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C03—GLASS; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL
    • C03B—MANUFACTURE, SHAPING, OR SUPPLEMENTARY PROCESSES
    • C03B5/00—Melting in furnaces; Furnaces so far as specially adapted for glass manufacture
    • C03B5/16—Special features of the melting process; Auxiliary means specially adapted for glass-melting furnaces
    • C03B5/235—Heating the glass
    • C03B5/2356—Submerged heating, e.g. by using heat pipes, hot gas or submerged combustion burners
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23C—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN  A CARRIER GAS OR AIR 
    • F23C5/00—Disposition of burners with respect to the combustion chamber or to one another; Mounting of burners in combustion apparatus
    • F23C5/08—Disposition of burners
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D14/00—Burners for combustion of a gas, e.g. of a gas stored under pressure as a liquid
    • F23D14/20—Non-premix gas burners, i.e. in which gaseous fuel is mixed with combustion air on arrival at the combustion zone
    • F23D14/22—Non-premix gas burners, i.e. in which gaseous fuel is mixed with combustion air on arrival at the combustion zone with separate air and gas feed ducts, e.g. with ducts running parallel or crossing each other
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23D—BURNERS
    • F23D14/00—Burners for combustion of a gas, e.g. of a gas stored under pressure as a liquid
    • F23D14/32—Burners for combustion of a gas, e.g. of a gas stored under pressure as a liquid using a mixture of gaseous fuel and pure oxygen or oxygen-enriched air
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23C—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN  A CARRIER GAS OR AIR 
    • F23C2205/00—Pulsating combustion
    • F23C2205/10—Pulsating combustion with pulsating fuel supply
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F23—COMBUSTION APPARATUS; COMBUSTION PROCESSES
    • F23C—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR COMBUSTION USING FLUID FUEL OR SOLID FUEL SUSPENDED IN  A CARRIER GAS OR AIR 
    • F23C2205/00—Pulsating combustion
    • F23C2205/20—Pulsating combustion with pulsating oxidant supply
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02P—CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS
    • Y02P40/00—Technologies relating to the processing of minerals
    • Y02P40/50—Glass production, e.g. reusing waste heat during processing or shaping

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  • the present disclosure relates generally to the field of combustion furnaces and methods of use to produce glass, and more specifically to methods and systems to destabilize foam in glass handling equipment downstream of a submerged combustion melter.
  • a submerged combustion melter may be employed to melt glass batch materials to produce molten glass by passing oxygen, oxygen-enriched mixtures, or air along with a liquid, gaseous fuel, or particulate fuel in the glass batch, directly into a molten pool of glass usually through burners submerged in a glass melt pool.
  • SCM submerged combustion melter
  • Certain SCMs and/or flow channels may employ one or more high momentum burners, for example, to impinge on portions of a foam layer. High momentum burners are disclosed assignee's patent application U.S. Serial No. 13/268,130, filed October 7, 201 1.
  • High momentum combustion burners means burners configured to have a fuel velocity ranging from about 150 ft./second to about 1000 ft./second (about 46 meters/second to about 305 meters/second) and an oxidant velocity ranging from about 150 ft./second to about 1000 ft./second (about 46 meters/second to about 305 meters/second).
  • Foam found in (or on top of) glasses typically exists as stable tetrahedral bubbles which need an outside influence to de-stabilize them and therefore break the foam, allowing heat transfer into the glass from burners located above the glass line.
  • the foam may be destructive of forehearth heating systems and construction materials. In extreme cases, the foam may cause systems to require shutdown, maintenance and may result in a process upset. Attempts to reduce the foam through process adjustments, summarized in "Glass Industry of the Future", U.S Dept.
  • a first aspect of the disclosure is a method comprising:
  • the downstream apparatus comprising a floor, a roof and a wall connecting the floor and roof, the downstream apparatus devoid of submerged combustion burners and other components that would increase turbulence of the molten mass, the molten mass having foam on at least a portion of a top surface of the molten mass;
  • impinging composition comprising a majority of gas onto at least a portion of the foam in the downstream apparatus, the impinging composition produced by a process selected from the group consisting of:
  • a second aspect of the disclosure is a system comprising:
  • an apparatus configured to be fluidly connected downstream of a submerged combustion melter, the downstream apparatus comprising a floor, a roof, a wall structure connecting the floor and roof, the floor, roof, and wall structure defining an internal space configured to contain a flowing or non-flowing molten mass of glass and foam, the apparatus devoid of submerged combustion burners and other components that would increase turbulence of the molten mass, the molten mass having foam on at least a portion of a top surface of the molten mass; and
  • one or more foam direct impingement components for directing an impinging composition comprising a majority of gas onto at least a portion of the foam in the apparatus, the direct impingement components selected from the group consisting of: i) one or more low momentum combustion burners positioned in the roof, the wall, or both to produce low momentum combustion products by combusting a fuel and an oxidant therein;
  • one or more non-combustion nozzles positioned in the roof, the wall, or both configured to discharge one or more fluids or slurries therefrom;
  • one or more apertures in the roof, the wall, or both configured to route one or more fluids or slurries onto at least a portion of the foam
  • FIG. 1A is a schematic side elevation view, partially in cross-section, of one system in accordance with the present disclosure
  • FIG. 1 B is a schematic transverse cross-section of the embodiment in FIG. 1A;
  • FIGS. 1 C and 1 D are schematic transverse cross-sectional views of two alternative embodiments of the system of FIGS. 1 A-B;
  • FIGS. 2A-H, inclusive, are schematic longitudinal cross-sectional views of various nozzles useful in the system illustrated in FIG. 1 C;
  • FIG. 2I-A is a schematic longitudinal cross-sectional view of another nozzle useful in the system illustrated schematically in FIG. 1 C, and
  • FIG. 2I-B is a transverse cross- sectional view of the nozzle illustrated schematically in FIG. 2I-A;
  • FIG. 2J-A is a schematic side elevation view partially in cross-section
  • FIG. 2J- B is a schematic end elevation view, of another nozzle embodiment useful in the system illustrated schematically in FIG. 1 C
  • FIG. 2J-C is a schematic cross-sectional view, partially in cross-section, along the line "2J-C - 2J-C" of FIG. 2J-B
  • FIG. 2J-D is an enlarged schematic cross-sectional view of a portion of the nozzle illustrated schematically in FIG. 2J-C
  • FIGS. 2K-A is a schematic perspective view, with portions broken away, of another nozzle useful in systems such as illustrated schematically in FIG. 1 C
  • FIG. 2K-B is a schematic longitudinal cross-sectional view of the nozzle of FIG. 2K-A
  • FIG. 3 is a logic diagram of one method embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • one drawback to present submerged combustion melting systems and methods is that the foam formed in the SCM may cause one or more problems in equipment downstream of the SCM, for example, glass conditioning and transport may be hindered as the foam layer may serve as an insulator and may limit the amount of energy capable of being transferred to the molten glass to maintain its temperature.
  • Foam found in (or on top of) molten glasses typically exists as stable tetrahedral bubbles which need an outside influence to de-stabilize them and therefore break the foam.
  • Applicants have discovered certain methods and systems that may reduce or eliminate such shortcomings.
  • submerged as used herein means that combustion gases emanate from a combustion burner exit that is under the level of the molten glass; and “non-submerged” means that combustion gases do not emanate from combustion burner exits under the level of molten glass. Both submerged and non-submerged burners may be roof-mounted, floor-mounted, wall-mounted, or any combination thereof (for example, two floor mounted burners and one wall mounted burner).
  • SC as used herein means “submerged combustion” unless otherwise specifically noted, and “SCM” means submerged combustion melter unless otherwise specifically noted.
  • low momentum as used in the contexts of "low momentum combustion burners” and “low momentum combustion products” means combustion burners configured to have a fuel velocity ranging from about 6 ft./second or less to about 40 ft./second (about 2 meters/second to about 12 meters/second) and an oxidant velocity ranging from about 6 ft./second or less to about 40 ft./second (about 2 meters/second to about 12 meters/second).
  • composition includes one or more gases, one or more liquids or solids that may evolve a gas or become gaseous under the high temperature conditions associated with submerged combustion melting, one or more particulate solids, and combinations of thereof, including slurries, mixtures of a gas and solid particles, and the like.
  • the terms "foam” and “foamy” include froths, spume, suds, heads, fluffs, fizzes, lathers, effervesces, layer and the like.
  • the term “bubble” means a thin, shaped, gas-filled film of molten glass. The shape may be spherical, hemispherical, rectangular, polyhedral, ovoid, and the like.
  • the gas or "bubble atmosphere" in the gas-filled SC bubbles may comprise oxygen or other oxidants, nitrogen, combustion products (including but not limited to, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, NO x , SO x , H 2 S, and water), reaction products of glass-forming ingredients (for example, but not limited to, sand (primarily Si0 2 ), clay, limestone (primarily CaC0 3 ), burnt dolomitic lime, borax and boric acid, and the like. Bubbles may include solids particles, for example soot particles, either in the film, the gas inside the film, or both.
  • combustion means deflagration-type combustion unless other types of combustion are specifically noted, such as detonation-type combustion.
  • combustion gases and “combustion products” means substantially gaseous mixtures of combusted fuel, any excess oxidant, and combustion products, such as oxides of carbon (such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide), oxides of nitrogen, oxides of sulfur, and water, whether from deflagration, detonation, or combination thereof.
  • Combustion products may include liquids and solids, for example soot and unburned or non-combusted fuels.
  • Oxidant as used herein includes air and gases having the same molar concentration of oxygen as air, oxygen-enriched air (air having oxygen concentration greater than 21 mole percent), and “pure” oxygen, such as industrial grade oxygen, food grade oxygen, and cryogenic oxygen.
  • Oxygen-enriched air may have 50 mole percent or more oxygen, and in certain embodiments may be 90 mole percent or more oxygen.
  • fuel means a combustible composition comprising a major portion of, for example, methane, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, propane, hydrogen, steam-reformed natural gas, atomized hydrocarbon oil, combustible powders and other flowable solids (for example coal powders, carbon black, soot, and the like), and the like.
  • Fuels useful in the disclosure may comprise minor amounts of non- fuels therein, including oxidants, for purposes such as premixing the fuel with the oxidant, or atomizing liquid or particulate fuels.
  • the term "fuel” includes gaseous fuels, liquid fuels, flowable solids, such as powdered carbon or particulate material, waste materials, slurries, and mixtures or other combinations thereof.
  • the sources of oxidant and fuel may be one or more conduits, pipelines, storage facility, cylinders, or, in embodiments where the oxidant is air, ambient air.
  • Oxygen- enriched oxidants may be supplied from a pipeline, cylinder, storage facility, cryogenic air separation unit, membrane permeation separator, or adsorption unit such as a vacuum swing adsorption unit.
  • downstream apparatus means a container, channel or conduit defined at least by a floor and a wall structure extending upwards from the floor to form a space in which molten glass may be present, whether flowing or not.
  • the downstream apparatus will include a roof and a wall structure connecting the floor and roof.
  • the downstream apparatus may have any operable cross-sectional shape (for example, but not limited to, rectangular, oval, circular, trapezoidal, hexagonal, and the like) and any flow path shape (for example, but not limited to, straight, zigzag, curved, and combinations thereof).
  • the downstream apparatus may be a flow channel selected from the group consisting of a conditioning channel, a distribution channel, and a forehearth.
  • Conduits used in burners and devices for delivery of compositions useful in systems and methods of the present disclosure may be comprised of metal, ceramic, ceramic-lined metal, or combination thereof.
  • Suitable metals include stainless steels, for example, but not limited to, 306 and 316 steel, as well as titanium alloys, aluminum alloys, and the like.
  • Suitable materials for the glass-contact refractory which may be present in SC melters and flow channels, and refractory burner blocks (if used), include fused zirconia (Zr0 2 ), fused cast AZS (alumina-zirconia-silica), rebonded AZS, or fused cast alumina (Al 2 0 3 ).
  • the particular system and method, downstream apparatus, burner geometry, foam de-stabilization apparatus, and type of glass to be produced may all dictate the choice of a particular material, among other parameters.
  • Certain submerged and non-submerged combustion burners and foam de- stabilization apparatus useful in systems and methods of this disclosure may be fluid- cooled, and may include first and second (or more) concentric conduits.
  • the first conduit may be fluidly connected at one end to a source of fuel
  • the second conduit may be fluidly connected to a source of oxidant
  • a third substantially concentric conduit may connect to a source of cooling fluid.
  • Certain systems of this disclosure may comprise one or more non-submerged burners.
  • Suitable non-submerged combustion burners may comprise a fuel inlet conduit having an exit nozzle, the conduit and nozzle inserted into a cavity of a ceramic burner block, the ceramic burner block in turn inserted into either the roof or the wall structure, or both the roof and wall structure of the downstream apparatus.
  • one or more burners may be adjustable with respect to direction of flow of the combustion products. Adjustment may be via automatic, semiautomatic, or manual control.
  • Certain system embodiments may comprise a burner mount that mounts the burner in the wall structure, roof, or floor of the downstream apparatus comprising a refractory or refractory-lined ball joint.
  • Other burner mounts may comprise rails mounted in slots in the wall or roof.
  • the burners may be mounted outside of the downstream apparatus, on supports that allow adjustment of the combustion products flow direction. Useable supports include those comprising ball joints, cradles, rails, and the like.
  • the downstream apparatus may comprise a flow channel comprising a series of sections, and may comprise one or more skimmers and/or impingement (high momentum) burners, such as described in assignee's co-pending applications U.S. Serial Nos. 13/268,130, filed October 7, 201 1 , and 13/493,170, filed June 1 1 , 2012.
  • Certain systems and methods of the present disclosure may utilize measurement and control schemes such as described in assignee's co-pending application U.S. Serial No. 13/493,219, filed June 1 1 , 2012, and/or feed batch densification systems and methods as described in assignee's copending application U.S. Serial No.13/540,704, filed July 3, 2012.
  • Certain systems and methods of the present disclosure may utilize devices for delivery of treating compositions such as disclosed in assignee's co-pending application U.S. Serial No. , filed
  • burner or pulsed detonation device combustion (flame) temperature may be controlled by monitoring one or more parameters selected from velocity of the fuel, velocity of the primary oxidant, mass and/or volume flow rate of the fuel, mass and/or volume flow rate of the primary oxidant, energy content of the fuel, temperature of the fuel as it enters the burner, temperature of the primary oxidant as it enters the burner, temperature of the effluent, pressure of the primary oxidant entering the burner, humidity of the oxidant, burner geometry, combustion ratio, and combinations thereof.
  • Certain systems and methods of this disclosure may also measure and/or monitor feed rate of batch or other feed materials, such as glass batch, cullet, mat or wound roving and treatment compositions, mass of feed, and use these measurements for control purposes.
  • Exemplary systems and methods of the disclosure may comprise a controller which receives one or more input parameters selected from temperature of melt, composition of bubbles and/or foam, height of foam layer, and combinations thereof, and may employ a control algorithm to control combustion temperature, flow rate and/or composition of foam de-stabilization compositions, and other output parameters based on one or more of these input parameters.
  • FIG. 1A is a schematic side elevation view, partially in cross-section, of one system embodiment 100 in accordance with the present disclosure
  • FIG. 1 B is a schematic transverse cross-section of embodiment 100.
  • FIG. 1 C and 1 D are schematic transverse cross-sectional views of two alternative embodiments 200 and 300.
  • SCM SCM is illustrated in dashed lines, indicating that the SCM is not, strictly speaking, a part of the systems of the present disclosure.
  • certain systems and methods may be described as comprising an SCM and one or more downstream apparatus receiving flow of molten glass and foam from the SCM.
  • Molten glass and foam produced in SCM 2 flow into a forehearth or other downstream apparatus 4 via a melter exit structure 6, also illustrated in dashed lines.
  • Downstream apparatus 4 comprises in this embodiment a floor 8, a roof 10, and a sidewall structure 12 connecting floor 8 and roof 10, and these components define an internal space 14 that confines a flowing or non-flowing mass of molten glass 16 having a foam layer 18 generally on a top surface thereof.
  • roof 10 may not be present.
  • One or more apertures 20 in roof 10 and/or wall structure 12 may be present as described herein.
  • SC burners in SCM 2 produce a turbulent melt comprising bubbles having a bubble atmosphere.
  • the atmosphere of the bubbles is about the same from bubble to bubble, but that is not necessarily so.
  • the bubbles form bubble layer 18 in downstream apparatus 4.
  • One or more SC burners in SCM 2 may be oxy/fuel burners.
  • SCM 2 may receive numerous feeds through one or more inlet ports, and batch feeders maybe provided. Other feeds are possible, such as glass mat waste, wound roving, waste materials, and the like, such as disclosed in assignee's application U.S. Serial No. 12/888,970, filed September 23, 2010 (published as U.S. Publication No. 2012/0077135 on March 29, 2012).
  • one or more low momentum non-submerged burners 22A, 22B, and 22C may be positioned in respective ports 20A, 20B, and 20C to impinge combustion product streams 24A, 24B, and 24C upon a portion of foam layer 18, as illustrated schematically in FIG. 1 B.
  • Burners 22 may take feed from supplies of oxidant and fuel through conduits 32, 34, respectively, although in certain air/fuel burners conduit 34 may not be required.
  • low momentum non- submerged burners 22 may be independently positioned at an angle " ⁇ " with respect to vertical using a refractory (or refractory-lined) ball joint 26.
  • Angle ⁇ may vary from 0 to about 70 degrees, or from 0 to about 45 degrees, and may vary from burner to burner.
  • Low momentum non-submerged burners 22 tend to have longer flames than high momentum burners, and this characteristic may be used to advantage in system sand methods of the present disclosure.
  • certain systems and methods of the present disclosure may include one or more high momentum non-submerged burners, care must be taken to position any high momentum non-submerged burners present so as to not significantly modify the combustion product streams emanating from the low momentum non-submerged burners, and the latter's ability to impact foam layer 18.
  • valves 36, 38 and appropriate valve controls are provided to pulse or oscillate flow of fuel and/or oxidant to low momentum non-submerged burners 22.
  • the pulsing may be random or non-random, and may provide certain benefits, such as reduced NOx emissions.
  • the principle and the various methods of implementation are broadly described in U.S. Patent Nos. 4,846,665, 5,302,1 1 1 , 5,522,721 , and U.S. Publication No. 2006/0177785.
  • the main idea is to pulse the flow of fuel, or oxidant being supplied to at least one burner of the furnace, to generate successive fuel-rich and fuel-lean zones in a flame.
  • the flow rate of a main or primary oxidant is controlled by a main oxidant flow rate control unit, and oscillating combustion is generated by oscillating the fuel flow with an osci!ating valve and combusting the oscillating fuel with the main oxidant adjacent the burner to produce combustion products.
  • a post-combustion oxidant may also be injected into the combustion products, and a post-combustion oxidant flow rate control unit may control the injection rate of the post-combustion oxidant.
  • a rate of the fuel flow may be predetermined.
  • a controller is provided that is operative!y associated with the main oxidant fiow rate control unit, the oscii!ating valve, and the post-combustion oxidant flow rate control unit.
  • a value or values associated with one or more combustion parameters may be determined.
  • the combustion parameter associated with the determined value or values may then be adjusted.
  • the determined value or values may be based upon the predetermined fuel fiow rate.
  • the determining step may be performed b the controi!er.
  • Embodiment 200 differs from embodiment 100 illustrated schematically in FIGS. 1A and B by replacing low momentum non-submerged burners 22 with nozzles 28A-D extending through respective apertures 20A-D, and supplied by respective supply conduits 30A-D.
  • Nozzles 28A-D supply one or more non-combustible fluids or slurries to directly impinge upon a portion of foam layer 18, as illustrated schematically in FIG. 1 C.
  • the fluids may be selected from high-pressure liquid water, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, noble gases, air, and combinations thereof.
  • Useful slurries may include, but are not limited to, high-pressure liquid water mixed with a glass-forming particulate ingredient, for example, but not limited, to any of the raw materials listed in Table 1 herein for making E- glass.
  • Suitable nozzles for use in systems such as illustrated in FIG. 1 C include single- fluid nozzles and multiple-fluid nozzles, and representative examples are schematically illustrated in FIGS. 2A-K.
  • Suitable single-fluid nozzles may include, but are not limited to, plain orifice type nozzles such as illustrated schematically in FIG. 2A, which includes a nozzle body 52 defining a cavity 53, and having an exit end 54 comprising an orifice 56.
  • Suitable single-fluid nozzles may also include shaped orifice nozzles such as illustrated in FIG. 2B, comprising nozzle body 52 and cavity 53, and further comprising a shaped body portion 58 defining a central passage 60 leading fluid or slurry to a hemispherical inlet that expands into a V-notch exit 62, which then routes fluid or slurry through a cylindrical region 64, and finally out exit end 54.
  • the hemispherical shaped inlet and a "V" notched outlet cause the flow to spread out on the axis of the V notch and produce a relatively flat fan spray.
  • Other suitable single-fluid nozzles may include surface impingement fluid nozzles such as illustrated in FIG.
  • a surface impingement nozzle causes a stream of liquid to impinge on a surface resulting in a sheet of liquid that breaks up into drops.
  • nozzles may include pressure-swirl spray nozzles such as illustrated schematically in FIG. 2D, comprising a central conduit 68 more or less concentric with nozzle body 52, and forming there between a nozzle annulus 69.
  • a nozzle insert 70 includes one or more-small diameter passages 72, 74, which route fluid or slurry into a central chamber 80 defined by a nozzle head 76.
  • One or more swirl plates 82 provide a swirling action to the fluid or slurry passing through this nozzle as the fluid or slurry passes through an exit orifice 84.
  • the spray formed may be a more focused spray than that formed from the nozzles illustrated in FIGS. 2A-C.
  • Pressure-swirl spray nozzles are high-performance (small drop size) devices.
  • the stationary core induces a rotary fluid motion that causes the swirling of the fluid in the swirl chamber.
  • a film is discharged from the perimeter of the outlet orifice producing a characteristic hollow cone spray pattern. Air or other surrounding gas is drawn inside the swirl chamber to form an air core within the swirling liquid.
  • Many configurations of fluid inlets are used to produce this hollow cone pattern depending on the nozzle capacity and materials of construction.
  • a spill-return pressure-swirl single-fluid nozzle is one variety of pressure swirl nozzle includes a controlled return of fluid from the swirl chamber to the feed system. This allows the nozzle pressure drop to remain high while allowing a wide range of operating rates. Solid cone nozzles, such as illustrated schematically in FIG.
  • Suitable multiple-fluid nozzles include both internal-mix multiple fluid nozzles and external-mix multiple-fluid nozzles.
  • FIG. 2G One example of an internal-mix multiple fluid nozzle is illustrated schematically in FIG. 2G, and comprises a nozzle body 52, a central conduit 68, forming there between a nozzle annulus 69 through which flows a first fluid or slurry. A second fluid or slurry flows though central passage 71 of central conduit 68.
  • Central conduit 68 includes a tapered section 94, followed by a cylindrical end section 96 which forms an exit for central passage 71.
  • Nozzle body 52 also has a tapered section 97, which forces the first fluid or slurry to change course and mix with the second fluid or slurry in an internal mixing region 98.
  • FIG. 2H illustrates schematically an example of a suitable external-mix multiple-fluid nozzle, which is similar structurally to the nozzle illustrated schematically in FIG. 2G, except that central conduit 68 is moved so that its exit orifice is generally co-planar with the exit end 54 of nozzle body 52, forming an external mixing zone 102 where the first and second fluids or slurries may mix.
  • nozzle includes atomizers, and suitable atomizers that may be used in systems and methods of the present disclosure include, but are not limited to, rotary atomizers (such as illustrated in FIG. 2I), electrostatic atomizers (such as illustrated in FIG. 2J), and ultrasonic atomizers (such as illustrated in FIG. 2K).
  • rotary atomizers such as illustrated in FIG. 2I
  • electrostatic atomizers such as illustrated in FIG. 2J
  • ultrasonic atomizers such as illustrated in FIG. 2K
  • FIGS. 2I-A and B which is described in U.S. Patent No. 6,578,779.
  • Rotary atomizers use a high speed rotating disk, cup or wheel to discharge liquid at high speed to the perimeter, forming a hollow cone spray. The rotational speed controls the drop size.
  • the rotary bell element or bell cup 120 for a rotary atomizer illustrated in FIGS. 2I-A and B includes a tube 122 which is externally threaded at 124 to be threadably received on the rotary bearing of a rotary atomizer and is electrically connected to the atomizer to electrostatically charge fluid or slurry sprayed by the rotary bell as described below.
  • Rotary bell element 120 further includes a deflector or diverter 126 that includes a generally conical concave distribution surface 128 having a deflection tip 130 which is opposed to and extends into the outlet of tube 122 as illustrated in FIG. 2I-A.
  • the distribution surface 128 of deflector 126 is integrally formed with a non-conductive end surface or plate 132 that may be formed of a polymer having a low coefficient of friction, such as polytetrafluoroethylene, or TEFLONTM.
  • Rotary bell element 120 further includes a rear housing 134 that, in the disclosed embodiment, includes a female threaded portion 136, which is threadably supported on the threaded portion 124 of tube 122. Fluid or slurry entering tube 122 is received by the generally conical distribution surface 128 and directed radially and axially into an annular generally conical passage or channel 138, which is defined by a rear distribution member 140 having a conical surface 142 and a front distribution member 144 having an opposed conical surface 146.
  • the rear distribution member 140 is connected to the rear housing member 134 by fasteners, such as rivets 141 or made integral with the rear housing member.
  • the rotary bell element 120 further includes a central electrode having a relatively sharp tip portion 152 extending in the axis of the rotary bell element as illustrated schematically in FIG. 2I-A.
  • the tip portion 152 of the axial electrode may have a diameter of between 0.2 to 1 mm, or between 0.3 to 0.6 mm, or about 0.5 mm.
  • Tip portion 152 of the central electrode extends through a bowl-shaped depression 154 in end face 132.
  • Bowl-shaped depression 154 may be shallow, arcuate and concentric relative to the axis of the rotary bell element and the tip portion 152 of the central electrode.
  • Tube 122 includes a plurality of radially spaced axial conductive pins 156 which are connected to a conductive tubular element 158 by suitable means including soldering or screws.
  • the conductive tubular element 158 surrounds the body 160 of the non- conductive deflector 126 and a conductive coil spring 162 electrically connects the body 164 of the center electrode to the inlet tube 122 as best shown in FIG. 2I-A.
  • body 160 of diverter 126 has an enlarged cylindrical portion having axial grooves or notches (not illustrated) which receive conductive pins 156. This construction also prevents relative rotation of tube 122 and the diverter or deflector 126.
  • conductive pins 156 are generally rectangular in cross- section and extend through the annular passage 138 which may receive a powder or other particulate material.
  • the rear housing element 134 which may be formed of aluminum, for example, includes an annular chamber 166 to reduce weight and a distal annular end portion 168 which supports the distal annular end portion 168 of the rear distribution member 140 as illustrated in FIG. 2I-A.
  • tube 122 is threadably connected to the rotary bearing of an atomizer body, and the rotary bearing is connected to a source of electric current (not shown) that typically impresses a voltage of between 50 to 90 KV on tube 122.
  • the central axially extending electrode 148 is electrically connected to tube 122 and thus the tip portion 152 of the central electrode is electrostatically charged to generate a central axially extending electrostatic field.
  • the rotary bell element includes an annular electrostatically charged surface adjacent the end surface of the bell element, which generates an annular electrostatic field.
  • the annular electrostatically charged surface of bell element 120 may be selected from the annular distal end 170 of the rear distribution member 140, wherein the rear housing 134 may be formed integrally with the rear distribution member 140.
  • both the rear and front distribution members 140 and 144 may be formed of a conductive polymer, such as polytetrafluoroethylene, having a conductive filler and the annular distal end portion 178 is electrostatically charged by the tubular portion 158 of tube 122 and which is closest to the foam 18 and generates the annular electrostatic field.
  • the annular surface 178 is essentially co-planar with the planar surface of the end face 132 as illustrated in FIG.
  • the annular distal end 178 includes an annual groove 180 which receives an annular lip 182 of the end face 132, supporting the circular radial outer edge of the end face 132 as illustrated in FIG. 2I-A.
  • a fluid or slurry enters tube 122 as illustrated in FIG. 2I-A by arrow 150 from the atomizer (not illustrated) and the fluid or slurry is received by the opposed conical surface 128 of the deflector or diverter 126.
  • the conical surface 128 directs the fluid or slurry radially and axially through the annular conical channel or passage 138 as illustrated by arrows 186, which directs the fluid or slurry to the fluid or slurry overflow surface 170.
  • the fluid or slurry is then electrostatically charged as it flows through the channel 138 by the opposed electrostatically charged surfaces 142 and 146.
  • the electrostatically charged fluid or slurry is then "atomized" by the centrifugal force of the rapidly rotating atomizer bell, as described above, and the fluid or slurry is directed to the foam by the annular electrostatic field.
  • Electrostatic charging of sprays may be useful for high transfer efficiency.
  • the charging is typically at high voltage (20 to 40 kV) but low current.
  • the apparatus illustrated in FIGS. 2JA-D, for electrically conductive fluids and slurries comprises a spray device 205 with a rotary spray head 207 in the form of a rotating bell throwing the fluid or slurry off an outside edge 21 1 , by rotation, and forming in the spray cloud area 209 located downstream from it a cloud of liquid or slurries particles which are separated from one another.
  • a bundle 210 of several lines for feeding electrically conductive fluid or slurry from a grounded supply system and for feeding solvent.
  • the solvent serves to pass through the spray coating apparatus, instead of the fluid or slurry, and clean from it fluid or slurry before changing over to another type of fluid or slurry, or at the end of a workday.
  • An electrode arrangement 212 is supported by a ring 214 from electrically insulating material, which ring concentrically surrounds the spray device 205.
  • the downstream end 216 of the ring 214 has a distance 220 from the downstream end 218 of the rotary body 207, which distance may range between 0 mm and 50 mm.
  • the radial distance between the outside edge 21 1 of the rotary body 207 and the radial center 224 on the downstream end of the ring 214 is marked 226 and may range between 50 mm and 250 mm.
  • a number of electrodes 228 protrude out of the ring 214, on its downstream end 216, by a length 230.
  • the length 230 may range from 0 mm to 50 mm.
  • the electrodes 228 are arranged around the periphery of the ring 214, on its downstream end 216, at a uniform distribution and extend essentially axially parallel with the axis of rotation 232 of the rotary body 207.
  • the ring 214 connects by way of strips 234 from electrically insulating material with the stationary part 236 of the rotary atomizer 205.
  • the ring 214 consists of two ring-shaped parts, namely a mounting ring 240 and a gas guide ring 242, each made of electrically insulating material.
  • the gas guide ring 242 serves to pass the gas across the electrodes 228 and its outside surfaces in such a way that the gas, preferably air, will receive electrical charges from the electrodes 228 and inject them in the spray cloud area 209, thereby transferring the charges to the atomized, separate particles of the electrically conductive liquid or slurry.
  • first gas channels 252 Formed in the gas guide ring 242, axially parallel with the axis of rotation 232, is a number of first gas channels 252 corresponding to the number of electrodes 228. These each contain one of the electrodes 228, are arranged at a symmetric distribution around the ring-shaped gas guide ring 242 and each extend from an angular groove 47 in the upstream front 276 up to the downstream end 216 of the gas ring 242.
  • the angular groove 247 contains a ring-shaped electrical conductor 280 to which the electrodes 228 are connected and which forms between itself and the bottom of the angular groove 247 a first angular channel 278 that is connected to at least one first gas feed line 249.
  • An electrical high voltage line 290 is connected to the electrical conductor 280.
  • the electrodes 228 are swept by the gas passing through the gas channels 252.
  • the gas guide ring 242 is installed in an angular groove 244 on the downstream side of the mounting ring 240, leaving between both parts a second angular channel 246, which is connected to at least one gas feed line 248 that is located on the upstream side 250 of the ring 214.
  • a second gas channel 256 which may have the shape of an angular slot or be a number of small ring-shaped openings, extends from the angular groove 244 on the downstream side 258 of the mounting ring 240 to a radially outer surface 260 of the gas guide ring 242.
  • the gas flows through the second gas channel 252 from the second angular channel 246 at the radially outer outside surface 260 and across it to the downstream end 216, where the gas flows across the protruding end sections 262 of the electrodes 228 and mixes with the gas from the first gas channels 252. Both gas flows pick up electrical charges from the electrodes 228 and transfer them to the particles of the atomized, electrically conductive coating liquid in the spray cloud area 209.
  • the gas of this third gas channel 256 flows as well across the protruding end sections 262 of the electrodes 228, mixes with the other gas and transfers together with it electrical charges from the electrodes 228 to the particles of the atomized coating liquid.
  • a high charge of electrical energy is transferred thereby from the electrodes to the particles of the atomized electrically conductive coating liquid, and the outside surfaces 260 and 268 of the gas guide ring 242 are thus kept clean of gas by preventing particles of the coating liquid to proceed on these outside surfaces.
  • the gas prevents a backflow of particles of the coating liquid, upstream from the spray cloud area 209 toward the electrode arrangement 212, so that the outside surfaces 270 of the mounting ring 240 cannot become contaminated either by coating liquid.
  • the second gas channel 256 and the third channel 266 are formed by a number of small openings between the mounting ring 240 and the gas guide ring 242.
  • Spacers 272 are contained in the angular groove 244 between the mounting ring 240 and the gas guide ring 242.
  • the separate gas feed lines 249 and 247 enable a separate adjustment and control of the gas supplied to the first gas channels 278, 252 and the second and third gas channels 256 and 266.
  • the ring 214 has a shape which in a direction downstream from the spray head 207 diminishes cross-sectionally in the form of a wedge, in that the mounting ring has a considerably shorter axial dimension than the gas guide ring 242 and the gas guide ring has in axial section a triangular shape, as can be seen specifically from FIGS. 2J-C and 2J-D.
  • the outside surfaces 270 of the mounting ring 240 extend into one another in bow fashion, according to FIGS. 2J-C and 2J-D.
  • the entire cross-sectional shape of the ring 214 is thus aerodynamic in the direction downstream from the spray head 207.
  • the second gas channel 256 extends essentially parallel with the radially outer outside surface 260 while the third gas channel 266 extends essentially parallel with the radially inner outside surface 268 of the gas guide ring 242. These gas channels are very short.
  • the gas discharge direction of the second and third gas channels 256 and 266 is so selected that their gas flows will closely sweep across the outside surfaces 260, 268 of the gas guide ring 242 in the direction toward the downstream end 216.
  • Ultrasonic atomizer spray nozzles utilize high frequency (20 kHz to 50 kHz) vibration to produce narrow drop-size distribution and low velocity spray from a liquid.
  • the vibration of a piezoelectric crystal causes capillary waves on the nozzle surface liquid film.
  • An example of such a device illustrated schematically in FIGS. 2K-A and 2K-B, modified slightly from U.S. Patent No. 4,723,708.
  • One embodiment of an ultrasonic atomizing transducer assembly 310 includes a transducer 312 having a driving element 313, a rear dummy section 314, and a front atomizing section 315.
  • Driving element 313 is assembled from a washer-shaped metal electrode 316 sandwiched between a pair of annular piezoelectric disks 317 and 318.
  • the electrode may be made of copper or any other suitable metal having high electrical conductivity, and it is provided with a terminal 319 for attachment to a source of electrical energy at the resonant frequency of the transducer.
  • the piezoelectric disks are made of any material conventionally used for such service, such as barium titanate or lead zirconate titanate.
  • Rear dummy section 314 is a metal cylinder, preferably titanium, having a length equal to a quarter wavelength at the designed operating frequency of the transducer.
  • Front atomizing section 315 includes a cylindrical portion 322 having a rear end 323 that contacts front piezoelectric disk 317 and a front end 324 that lies in a nodal plane, cylindrical portion 322 being designed to be one-half wavelength long at the operating frequency of the transducer. From the front end of the cylindrical portion 322, a quarter wavelength amplifying probe 325 extends to a frustoconical tip 326 having an atomizing surface 327.
  • the front atomizing section preferably is made of the same material as the rear dummy section, although a different material could be used if desired, so long as the appropriate wavelength dimensions were used to match the operating frequency of the rear section.
  • the outer diameter of the transducer is equal to the diameters of the front and rear sections.
  • the tubular bolt engages an internally threaded enlarged portion 331 of an axial passage 332 that extends through the transducer from the rear end of the rear dummy section 314 to open onto the atomizing surface 327 at the tip of the probe 325.
  • an O-ring seal 333 is provided between a smooth sealing surface 334 machined on the front end of the central bolt 329 and the inner surface of the passage 332. As illustrated, the O-ring is fitted into a circumferential groove machined into the wall of the passage to assure that the O-ring is properly located with respect to the sealing surface 334.
  • the groove could equally well be formed on the end of the bolt, or any other conventional sealing arrangement could be used between the end of the bolt and the inner surface of the passage in the front section.
  • An additional O-ring 335 is provided to seal between the outer circumference of the feed tube 330 and the inner circumference of the axial passage. This second O-ring prevents ingress of moisture from the environment surrounding the atomizer. Because there are no clamping flanges on the transducer body to provide an annular area for a compressed ring gasket around the outside of the driving element, the outer peripheries of the piezoelectric disks are protected by an enclosed shell 336. This shell is in the form of a cylindrical cup 337 having a screw cap 338.
  • the cup 337 has an end wall provided with an opening 340, which receives the cylindrical portion 322 of the front section of the transducer. This opening is sealed by a radially compressed O-ring 341 disposed between the outer circumference of the cylindrical portion 322 and a counterbore in the opening 340.
  • Screw cap 338 has an end wall 343 with a similar but smaller opening 344.
  • An O-ring 345 in a counterbore 346 seals this opening in the same way as O-ring 341 seals the front opening. As illustrated, O-ring 345 is radially compressed between the counterbore 346 and a cylindrical collar 347 extending from the end 321 of the rear dummy section.
  • Liquid may be delivered to the rear of the unit via a flexible hose (not shown) connected to the delivery tube 330 by the standard coupling connectors 352 (see FIG. 2K-A).
  • the assembly can be supported by a rigid liquid supply pipe coupled to the delivery tube 330.
  • the proper compression force may be obtained by applying a torque wrench to two diametrically spaced detent holes 348 drilled in the rear end 321 of rear dummy element 314.
  • a lead wire 349 attached to a hermetically sealed coaxial fitting 350 mounted on the end wall of the cap is clipped or soldered to a terminal of the center electrode 316.
  • the cap 338 may be tightened using a spanner wrench fitting the detent holes 351 in the end wall of the cap.
  • FIG. 1 D is a schematic transverse cross-sectional view of another system embodiment 300 within the present disclosure.
  • Embodiment 300 features one or more apertures 20 in roof 10 of a downstream apparatus 4 configured to route one or more fluids or slurries 40 onto at least a portion of foam layer 18.
  • the fluid or slurry may be supplied from one or more supply tanks or containers 42, 44, which are fluidly and mechanically connected to downstream apparatus 4 via one or more conduits 46, which may or may not include flow control valves 48.
  • One or more of the conduits may be flexible metal hoses, such as illustrated at 50, but they may also be solid metal, ceramic, or ceramic-lined metal conduits.
  • conduits 46, 50 may include a flow control valve, which may be adjusted to shut off flow through a particular conduit. Only one control valve 48 is illustrated for clarity. As illustrated in FIG. 1 D, fluid or slurry 40 falls by gravity and directly impinges a portion or portions of foam layer 18, thereby destroying at least some of the foam.
  • systems and methods comprising combinations of any two or more of the various embodiments described herein may be combined.
  • systems and methods where one or more low momentum non-submerged burners impinge on foam, such as in embodiment 100 may also include one or more nozzles delivering other compositions, as in embodiment 200.
  • adding nitrogen as a treating composition to the molten mass of glass and bubbles in the downstream apparatus may tend to make bubbles in foam 18 less stable when there is the presence of a high moisture atmosphere in the downstream apparatus.
  • a high moisture atmosphere may exist in the downstream apparatus for example when one or more high momentum burners (whether oxy/fuel or not) are used as impingement burners in the downstream apparatus to impinge on foam 18.
  • the use of one or more high momentum impingement burners (whether oxy/fuel or not) in a downstream flow channel is described in assignee's co-pending application U.S. Serial No. 13/493,170, filed June 1 1 , 2012.
  • Measuring effectiveness of the foam de-stabilization systems and methods described herein may generally be made by taking samples of the molten mass of glass and counting bubbles and their size in the molten mass, or a solidified or partially solidified sample thereof, using the naked eye. Another naked eye measurement may simply be comparing an acceptable glass to a glass sample made using a system and method of the present disclosure, and making a naked eye comparison. Another method would be to simply observe the height of foam or bubbles within a channel or other downstream apparatus, using graduated marks on refractory materials to serve as a ruler, or use of known heights of construction materials for the sidewalls to access the height of the foam.
  • More sophisticated methods and equipment may certainly be used, such as image analysis using computers to measure size, size distribution and quantity of bubbles (or other parameters) within a high-resolution photograph or micrograph of the material to be analyzed.
  • companies such as Glass Service market methods and equipment for such measurements.
  • the glass melting method, as well as phenomena within the melt may be continuously observed, recorded and evaluated using a high temperature observation furnace equipped with a special silica observation crucible.
  • This equipment may be further coupled with image analysis equipment to provide easy manipulation of recorded data. For example, in a "melt test", the objective is to evaluate the fining characteristics of differing batch compositions.
  • the area of the recorded images occupied by inhomogeneities (bubbles), bubble size distribution, bubble number, as well as bubble growth rates vs.
  • melting time may be evaluated to provide comparison between individual batches.
  • the records of the melting course may be provided in the form of video files, which may be displayed on a personal computer, handheld computer, or other viewer.
  • Bubble growth rate, or shrinkage rate, or rate of disappearance measurements may be based on direct observation and recording of bubble sizes depending on time. It is possible to keep bubbles suspended in the melt for hours by the developed "shuttle" method.
  • a reduction of 5 percent, or 10 percent, or 20 percent, or 30 percent or more of foam may be acceptable. In other embodiments, nothing short of complete or substantially complete foam or bubble removal will suffice, in other words 90 percent, or 95 percent, or 99 percent, or even 99.9 percent reduction in foam and bubbles.
  • FIG. 3 is a logic diagram of one method embodiment 400 of the present disclosure.
  • Method embodiment 400 includes flowing a molten mass of glass and bubbles into an apparatus downstream of a submerged combustion melter, the downstream apparatus comprising a floor, a roof and a wall connecting the floor and roof, the downstream apparatus devoid of submerged combustion burners and other components that would increase turbulence of the molten mass, the molten mass having foam on at least a portion of a top surface of the molten mass, box 402.
  • the method further comprises directly impinging an impinging composition onto at least a portion of the foam in the downstream apparatus (box 404), the impinging composition produced by a process selected from the group consisting of: i) combusting a fuel and an oxidant in one or more low momentum combustion burners positioned in the roof, the wall, or both to produce low momentum combustion products (box 406), ii) discharging one or more fluids or slurries from one or more non-combustion nozzles positioned in the roof, the wall, or both (box 408), iii) routing one or more fluids or slurries from one or more apertures in the roof, the wall, or both (box 410), and iv) combinations of any two or more of (i) - (iii) (box 412).
  • the downstream apparatus 4 may include one or more bushings (not illustrated) for example when producing glass fiber (not illustrated).
  • Downstream apparatus for use in systems and methods of the present disclosure may comprise a roof, floor and sidewall structure comprised of an outer metal shell, non-glass-contact brick or other refractory wall, and glass-contact refractory for those portions expected to be in contact with molten glass.
  • Downstream apparatus may include several sections arranged in series, each section having a roof, floor, and sidewall structure connecting its roof and floor, and defining a flow channel for conditioning molten glass flowing there through.
  • the sections may be divided by a series of skimmers, each extending generally substantially vertically downward a portion of a distance between the roof and floor of the channel, with a final skimmer positioned between a last channel section and a forehearth.
  • the number of sections and the number of skimmers may each be more or less than two.
  • the downstream apparatus may be rectangular as illustrated in the various figures, or may be a shape such as a generally U-shaped or V-shaped channel or trough of refractory material supported by a metallic superstructure.
  • the flow rate of the molten glass through downstream apparatus 4 will depend on many factors, including the geometry and size of the SCM and downstream apparatus, temperature of the melt, viscosity of the melt, and like parameters, but in general the flow rate of molten glass may range from about 0.5 Ib./min to about 5000 Ibs./min or more (about 0.23 kg/min to about 2300 kg/min or more), or from about 10 Ibs./min to about 500 Ibs./min (from about 4.5 kg/min to about 227 kg/min), or from about 100 Ibs./min to 300 Ibs./min (from about 45 kg/min to about 136 kg/min).
  • Low momentum non-submerged burners useful in systems and methods of this disclosure may include some of the features of those disclosed in assignee's U.S. Serial No. 13/268130, filed October 7, 201 1.
  • the burners may have a fuel firing rate ranging from about 0.4 to about 40 scfh (from about 1 1 L/hr. to about 1 ,120 L/hr.); an oxygen firing rate ranging from about 0.6 to about 100 scfh (from about 17 L/hr.
  • a combustion ratio ranging from about 1.5 to about 2.5; nozzle velocity ratio (ratio of velocity of fuel to oxygen at the fuel nozzle tip) ranging from about 0.5 to about 2.5; a fuel velocity ranging from about 6 ft./second to about 40 ft./second (about 2 meters/second to about 12 meters/second) and an oxidant velocity ranging from about 6 ft./second to about 40 ft./second (about 2 meters/second to about 12 meters/second).
  • Submerged combustion melters may be fed a variety of feed materials.
  • the initial raw material may include any material suitable for forming molten glass such as, for example, limestone, glass, sand, soda ash, feldspar and mixtures thereof.
  • a glass composition for producing glass fibers known as "E-glass” typically includes 52-56% Si0 2 , 12-16% AI2O3, 0-0.8% Fe 2 0 3 , 16-25% CaO, 0-6% MgO, 0-10% B 2 0 3 , 0-2% Na 2 0+K 2 0, 0- 1.5% Ti0 2 and 0-1 % F 2 .
  • Other glass compositions may be used, such as those described in assignee's published U.S. Publication Nos. 2007/0220922 and 2008/0276652.
  • the initial raw material to provide these glass compositions can be calculated in known manner from the desired concentrations of glass components, molar masses of glass components, chemical formulas of batch components, and the molar masses of the batch components.
  • Typical E-glass batches include those reproduced in Table 1 borrowed from U.S. Publication No. 2007/0220922. Notice that during glass melting, carbon dioxide (from lime) and water (borax) evaporate.
  • the initial raw material can be provided in any form such as, for example, relatively small particles.
  • SCMs may also be fed by one or more roll stands, which in turn supports one or more rolls of glass mat, as described in assignee's co-pending application U.S. Serial No. 12/888,970, filed September 23, 2010, incorporated herein by reference.
  • powered nip rolls may include cutting knives or other cutting components to cut or chop the mat (or roving, in those embodiments processing roving) into smaller length pieces prior to entering melter 602.
  • a glass batch feeder may be provided in certain embodiments. Glass batch feeders are well-known in this art and require no further explanation.
  • Downstream apparatus may include refractory fluid-cooled panels.
  • Liquid-cooled panels may be used, having one or more conduits or tubing therein, supplied with liquid through one conduit, with another conduit discharging warmed liquid, routing heat transferred from inside the melter to the liquid away from the melter.
  • Liquid-cooled panels may also include a thin refractory liner, which minimizes heat losses from the melter, but allows formation of a thin frozen glass shell to form on the surfaces and prevent any refractory wear and associated glass contamination.
  • Other useful cooled panels include air-cooled panels, comprising a conduit that has a first, small diameter section, and a large diameter section.
  • Warmed air transverses the conduits such that the conduit having the larger diameter accommodates expansion of the air as it is warmed.
  • Air-cooled panels are described more fully in U.S. Patent No. 6,244, 197.
  • the refractory fluid cooled-panels are cooled by a heat transfer fluid selected from the group consisting of gaseous, liquid, or combinations of gaseous and liquid compositions that functions or is capable of being modified to function as a heat transfer fluid.
  • Gaseous heat transfer fluids may be selected from air, including ambient air and treated air (for air treated to remove moisture), inert inorganic gases, such as nitrogen, argon, and helium, inert organic gases such as fluoro-, chloro- and chlorofluorocarbons, including perfluorinated versions, such as tetrafluoromethane, and hexafluoroethane, and tetrafluoroethylene, and the like, and mixtures of inert gases with small portions of non- inert gases, such as hydrogen.
  • Heat transfer liquids may be selected from inert liquids that may be organic, inorganic, or some combination thereof, for example, salt solutions, glycol solutions, oils and the like.
  • Heat transfer fluids may be compositions comprising both gas and liquid phases, such as the higher chlorofluorocarbons.
  • Certain embodiments may comprise a method control scheme for the downstream apparatus.
  • a master method controller may be configured to provide any number of control logics, including feedback control, feed-forward control, cascade control, and the like. The disclosure is not limited to a single master method controller, as any combination of controllers could be used.
  • control used as a transitive verb, means to verify or regulate by comparing with a standard or desired value.
  • Control may be closed loop, feedback, feed-forward, cascade, model predictive, adaptive, heuristic and combinations thereof.
  • controller means a device at least capable of accepting input from sensors and meters in real time or near-real time, and sending commands directly to one or more foam de-stabilization elements, and/or to local devices associated with foam de-stabilization elements able to accept commands.
  • a controller may also be capable of accepting input from human operators; accessing databases, such as relational databases; sending data to and accessing data in databases, data warehouses or data marts; and sending information to and accepting input from a display device readable by a human.
  • a controller may also interface with or have integrated therewith one or more software application modules, and may supervise interaction between databases and one or more software application modules.
  • the controller may utilize Model Predictive Control (MPC) or other advanced multivariable control methods used in multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) systems.
  • MPC Model Predictive Control
  • MIMO multiple input/multiple output
  • the downstream apparatus floors and sidewall structures may include a glass- contact refractory lining.
  • the glass-contact lining may be 1 centimeter, 2 centimeters, 3 centimeters or more in thickness, however, greater thickness may entail more expense without resultant greater benefit.
  • the refractory lining may be one or multiple layers.
  • Glass-contact refractory used in downstream apparatus described herein may be cast concretes such as disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 4,323,718. Two cast concrete layers are described in the '718 patent, the first being a hydraulically setting insulating composition (for example, that known under the trade designation CASTABLE BLOC-MIX-G, a product of Fleischmann Company, Frankfurt Main, Federal Republic of Germany).
  • This composition may be poured in a form of a wall section of desired thickness, for example a layer 5cm thick, or 10cm, or greater.
  • This material is allowed to set, followed by a second layer of a hydraulically setting refractory casting composition (such as that known under the trade designation RAPID BLOCK RG 158, a product of Fleischmann company, Frankfurt/Main, Federal Republic of Germany) may be applied thereonto.
  • a hydraulically setting refractory casting composition such as that known under the trade designation RAPID BLOCK RG 158, a product of Fleischmann company, Frankfurt/Main, Federal Republic of Germany
  • Suitable materials for the downstream apparatus are fused zirconia ( ⁇ ), fused cast AZS (alumina-zirconia-silica), rebonded AZS, or fused cast alumina (Al 2 0 3 ).
  • ⁇ fused zirconia
  • fused cast AZS alumina-zirconia-silica
  • rebonded AZS rebonded cast alumina
  • Al 2 0 3 fused cast alumina

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L'invention concerne des procédés et des systèmes servant à la déstabilisation de la mousse produite dans des pots de fusion à combustion immergée. Une masse fondue de verre et de bulles est coulée dans un appareil en aval d'un pot de fusion à combustion immergée. L'appareil en aval comprend un plancher, un toit et une paroi reliant le plancher et le toit, mais est dépourvu de brûleurs à combustion immergée et d'autres éléments qui augmenteraient la turbulence de la masse fondue. La masse fondue comprend de la mousse sur au moins une partie de la surface supérieure de la masse fondue. Un procédé consiste à précipiter une composition incidente directement sur au moins une partie de la mousse dans l'appareil en aval. L'invention se rapporte également aux systèmes destinés à mettre en oeuvre les procédés.
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